Hardscaoes Inc. Calgary Concrete Floors

Enhance your property value with an overdue restoration

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Hardscapes Inc. concrete floor.If you’re considering selling your home, it may be the perfect time to give it some TLC with a much needed and long overdue restoration or renovation. In fact, improvements may help your home win out over other properties competing against yours on the market.

So why not be proactive now? You’ll be ahead of the game when you’re ready to put that For Sale sign on the front lawn knowing that your investment will pay off!

Hardscapes Inc. has been providing quality craftsmanship, service and customer satisfaction for over 17 years. We’re here to answer all your questions, discuss your ideas, or to book a FREE personalized quote.

Call 403-547-5597 today!

Is your floor looking a little lackluster?

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Years of wear and tear from constant traffic can suck the life out of your store or office floors. If yours are looking a little tired and dull, we can bring these hard-working floors back to life!

A concrete overlay can make all the difference.

This type of overlay can add years to the life of your floor and create a specific ambiance designed especially for you. Here are a few things to consider when contemplating a concrete overlay.

1. What conditions will the floor be exposed to?

Certain polished surfaces might not be appropriate for wet conditions. High traffic areas might need to be a darker colour to give the floor a longer life and to keep maintenance to a minimum.

2. What is the installation cost?

Costs average between $3 to $10 per sq ft depending on installation. More elaborate finishes can be more. For more information or a FREE quote contact us at your convenience.

3. How much maintenance is required?

This type of surface is stain resistant to dirt and grease when coated with a sealer. Only the usual cleaning and maintenance of any floor is required.

 Call 403-547-5597 today to discuss how we can bring your lackluster floors back to life!

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Need your industrial floor resurfaced?

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Quality from Start to Finish

The industrial floor finish process begins with surface prep. It’s always the key to a successful floor installation. The old floor in the video has been used for many different businesses over the years, and once complete will be home to an extensive car collection.

The process began with a deep grind using a 32” machine that weighs more than 1500 lbs. The combination of weight and the correct diamond tooling ensures a deep grind to fully remove all surface contaminants. We also ran a shot-blaster over the rougher areas to ensure a clean floor down into any divots and depressions.

Once a good clean floor is achieved, we skim the floor out with a floor patching material to fill and smooth the depressions and other deficiencies prior to coating. Once that has dried, a light grind over the patch and we are ready to begin the coating process.

Our base coat of epoxy goes down nice and even with a squeegee and backroll before we broadcast the flake. This client chose a gray and white mix with 7% silver micah for a unique look that will have a gorgeous finish.

Once the base coat has cured, we remove the excess flake, scrape it down and sand it before the applying two topcoats of polyaspartic.

The final product is a spectacular showroom finish that is extremely chemical and abrasion resistant and will last for years to come.

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Speed the sale of your home with better curb appeal!

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Drieveway-CrackWhat is the first thing a potential home buyer sees when they view a property? The driveway. They will either park in it or walk up it as they approach your home. If you think a cracked and pitted driveway doesn’t matter to a potential buyer you would be wrong.

Here’s what one agent had to say:

“A new concrete driveway will greatly increase your home’s curb appeal. Better curb appeal can speed the sale of your home. It may be an upgrade that will not increase the value of your home but without repair it might cause your house to not sell at all.”

Hardscapes Inc. is expert at repairing cracked and pitted driveways and garage floors. Don’t wait until your house is up for sale to get the job done. We can help today!

Call 403-547-5597 now for your estimate. 

Concrete Curing Tips

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Stopping freshly poured concrete from drying out too quickly is called curing. If left to dry of its own accord, concrete will not develop the full bond between all of its ingredients. It will be weaker and will crack more, and the surface may not be as hard as it should be.

The following are some useful concrete curing tips:

–  The form work itself, if left in place or on the underneath of a suspended slab, stops the concrete drying out too quickly, and can be a curing agent.

–  Spraying water on curing concrete prevents the surface of the concrete slab from drying faster than the bottom. A simple way to consistently keep water spraying onto the slab is with garden sprinklers or hand-held hose pipes.

–  Using a plastic shield, which basically is a plastic sheet laid on top of the slab, to stop the evaporation process is one of the most efficient methods of curing concrete.

–  Concrete curing oils or curing compounds can encourage fast drying and penetrating and are now available in a variety of types.

Preparing concrete is more challenging than it looks. A professional in the field is always a good idea. Hardscapes has experts who will help you with all your concrete projects. Just give us a call at 403-547-5597 and we’d be happy to come out to discuss your ideas and give you an estimate today.

Considering your commercial or industrial floor coating options?

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Here at Hardscapes we have many years of concrete commercial/industrial flooring experience. We have solutions for restaurants, retail/commercial flooring, and even warehouse/industrial flooring is within the scope of our expertise.

Specializing in many finishes, our products are ideal for high-traffic areas and areas requiring slip-resistant textures and finishes.

In addition, we offer resurfacing processes (over existing concrete) and have the equipment necessary to remove the epoxy, paint, glue, thin-set, and mastic. All of these coatings can be removed without the use of harmful chemicals. We utilize dust collection for all of our grinding/removal processes and leave nice smooth concrete ready for staining, engraving, or coating with any of our beautiful finishes.

Our concrete diamond polishing & densifying processes will bring your concrete up to a sparkling shine.

With our attention to detail and high level of customer service, we take pride in every project we undertake! Get in touch today at 403-547-5597 for a no-obligation quote that will address your specific needs and budget.

Did you know that concrete doesn’t have to be boring ‘ol gray?!

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If you have a residential or commercial concrete surface you’re considering restoring or doing something more exciting to than the traditional dull shade of gray, we have some colourful, decorative products that will make your flooring unique to you!

The REFLECTOR™ Enhancer Epoxy Flooring System offers an innovative concrete finish solution in unlimited colours, designs and patterns.

From every day residential living spaces, sun rooms, basements, garage floors, and patios to commercial flooring in malls, medical facilities, hotels, restaurants, office buildings and educational buildings, REFLECTOR™ Enhancer is a durable, low maintenance flooring alternative that is aesthetically appealing.

Give us a call today at 403-547-5597 for more information or to explore options. We’d love to help you come up with something original and creative!

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Things to do this weekend…

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There are plenty of fun things to do with your family and friends this long weekend in Calgary.

Many families visit Heritage Park and take a trip back through time, while others take in the festivities at Prince’s Island Park or at the Inglewood Sunfest.

Enjoy all the fabulous Music Fests, Shakespeare by the Bow or even a visit to our local museums. Fort Calgary, won’t disappoint. It celebrates Alberta’s Heritage Day with interpretive tours, movies, crafts, face paintings, a treasure hunt and genealogy presentations. Something for everyone!

For more information see August Long Weekend Activity Guide

Looking for a long lasting, durable, easy-to-clean flooring system?

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Look no further!

Concrete SolutionsIntroduced in the 1990s polyaspartic became a new class of coating.

Because polyaspartics can be formulated with slower reaction rates, they can be roller-applied or spray-applied with conventional paint sprayers without the use of solvent. Polyaspartic coatings are also UV and light stable and will not age or yellow.

This format can also be applied with broadcast medias such as quartz and vinyl paint chips.

Hardscapes Inc. often uses these polyaspartics components as well as incorporating metallic pigments to give a long lasting, incredibly durable and easy-to-clean flooring system.

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